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Post by leonski on May 13, 2016 21:48:46 GMT -5
I am a BIG fan of the BUFF. And I think that they should at least think SERIOUSLY about the RE-ENGINE proposals which have from time-to-time been floated. Part of my circle of friends includes a couple Colonels who flew F4s. They served out there reserve time flying for what I think was the LAST squadron of RF4s. I recently saw up close and personal, an F104 and a MIG21 sitting side byside. The '104 had 1 engine of the type of which the F4 had TWO. The '21 is plain EVIL. The same place had a fix-et-upper MIG 17 as well. Good luck with PARTS. I know it's NOT the same, but a heartbreaker, nonetheless. Find the video of the RC MODEL B52. This thing is a MONSTER and takes a full crew to get it started and flying. Well, they KEYHOLED it. Big explosion / fireball and nothing left but memories. And a frightening video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=68WZ6PgsBhM |
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Post by Axis on May 13, 2016 22:06:10 GMT -5
I am a BIG fan of the BUFF. And I think that they should at least think SERIOUSLY about the RE-ENGINE proposals which have from time-to-time been floated. Part of my circle of friends includes a couple Colonels who flew F4s. They served out there reserve time flying for what I think was the LAST squadron of RF4s. I recently saw up close and personal, an F104 and a MIG21 sitting side byside. The '104 had 1 engine of the type of which the F4 had TWO. The '21 is plain EVIL. The same place had a fix-et-upper MIG 17 as well. Good luck with PARTS. I know it's NOT the same, but a heartbreaker, nonetheless. Find the video of the RC MODEL B52. This thing is a MONSTER and takes a full crew to get it started and flying. Well, they KEYHOLED it. Big explosion / fireball and nothing left but memories. And a frightening video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=68WZ6PgsBhMDo you notice that the aircraft is nose down at take off and how swept back the wings are. This is a incredibly difficult aircraft to fly from inside a real one. Trying to fly a model aircraft of the design of the B-52 was a disaster waiting to happen. If the center of gravity was off by a small amount there was no way for a remote pilot to know in a turn or dive that the aircraft needed trim and what trim to compensate. Hence the saying "flying by the seat of your pants". |
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Post by leonski on May 13, 2016 22:47:01 GMT -5
Any way you slice it, an EXPENSIVE ($$$$$) mistake. And than the owner probably got CHARGED to put out the fire and clean up the MESS.
The real B52 has some built-in Dihedral given that the wing tips might be as much as 12 feet higher than the 'resting' level. I've seen movies of the real plane taking off
and the wings flex upward before the rest of the plane follows.
Don't they have wing-tip gear, too?
The dihedral aids stability in flight. I don't know if the model had that feature, as well.
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Post by garbulky on May 13, 2016 23:12:42 GMT -5
I am a BIG fan of the BUFF. Glad you let us know my friend. We want you to be you!  |
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Post by Axis on May 13, 2016 23:22:18 GMT -5
Any way you slice it, an EXPENSIVE ($$$$$) mistake. And than the owner probably got CHARGED to put out the fire and clean up the MESS. The real B52 has some built-in Dihedral given that the wing tips might be as much as 12 feet higher than the 'resting' level. I've seen movies of the real plane taking off and the wings flex upward before the rest of the plane follows. Don't they have wing-tip gear, too? The dihedral aids stability in flight. I don't know if the model had that feature, as well. The wings have 22 feet of flex measured at the wing tip. That is your Dihedral flex. At the end of the wing is an external fuel tank and wing gear. The fuel tank was used as a sump for the wing tanks and would capture fuel that would bleed from the wing tanks from expansion of the fuel. They were called surge tanks and with a full fuel load on a hot day you would need keep them drained. We had a tank on wheels that had a big funnel that could be raised depending on how high the wing tip was. I remember on windy days you would get sprayed and soaked with jet fuel draining them. You seemed to always be walking around smelling like jet fuel and that stuff stinks. No glamor in it like you see on the movies. It was a hard job with engine smut, hydraulic oil and jet fuel on you all the time.  Here is something cool that many do not know about the Buff. The main landing gear were designed as trucks. This would allow them to rotate on the top axis. This would rotate the entire aircraft to land or take off in severe crosswinds. This is called crosswind crab and was very cool to see a Buff go down the runway with the nose pointed toward the side of the runway and the main gear pointed strait down the runway. Here is a video of one landing with crab. |
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Post by Axis on May 13, 2016 23:29:18 GMT -5
I am a BIG fan of the BUFF. Glad you let us know my friend. We want you to be you! Big Ugly Flying Fellow F***er (BUFF) !  |
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Post by Axis on May 14, 2016 4:18:27 GMT -5
Back on subject. Hair Nick winked . They are up to something. I saw the wireless trend at CES this year and posted here about it. You need speakers that have amplification built in to make them wireless and wireless is CD quality now. Here is a couple paragraphs from another TWICE article called Top 10 Audio Developments At CES 2016. www.twice.com/top-10-audio-developments-ces/602213. High-res Bluetooth: Qualcomm’s AptX codec, designed to deliver CD-quality stereo over Bluetooth, got an upgrade to 24 bits from 16 bits in a nod to the audio industry’s move to high-res content. The new codec, called AptX HD, retains its predecessor’s 48kHz sampling rate. AptX HD will compete with Sony’s LDAC wireless technology, promoted as delivering near-high-res audio over Bluetooth by transmitting at a maximum transfer rate of 990Kbps, or about three times the data rate of conventional Bluetooth. 5. Wireless multiroom audio: More products, more brands and new capabilities turned up at the show. New brands include McIntosh, iLuv, Jam, Gibson’s Philips audio brand and Klipsch. Other companies expanded their selections, including Raumfeld, Naim, Paradigm and Wren. DTS also announced Rotel, the component-audio supplier, will enter the market, using the interoperable DTS Play-Fi platform used by Klipsch, McIntosh, Paradigm, Wren and others. Other companies stepped up their wireless multiroom capabilities, with Harman Kardon adding Bluetooth restreaming over Wi-Fi, and Sony enabling its new wireless- multiroom speakers to serve as surround speakers when used with two new Sony soundbars, also equipped with wireless multiroom. |
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Post by Axis on May 14, 2016 5:47:12 GMT -5
Well, what do you know. I decided read a little father down that same article and just found this.
9. More options to the venerable AVR: High-performance alternatives to the AVR came from Klipsch and Axiim, whose WiSA home theater systems are built around a control center that lacks AM/FM tuner but pakcs all the functions of an AVR is a small package, including HDMI switching and surround decoding. Amplification is contained in the wireless WiSA speakers.
Emotiva talked up something similar in a planned Emersa integrated home theater system, which will consist of an AVR-like hub without AM/FM tuner, a passive five-channel soundbar and a wireless powered subwoofer.
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